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Study on the Antigens of Tumor FBL-3: I . Analysis of Peptide Antigens from Peptides Pool of Tumor Cells by Acid Elution
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Abstract:
T lymphocytes, which play a very important role in tumor immunity, recognize the tumor antigenic peptide presented by MHC molecules on the surface of tumor cells. FBL-3 is a transplantable Friend virus-induced leukemia of B6 (H-2~(b) ) origin, which can induce the CTL against FBL-3 by immunizing B6 mice with attenuated FBL-3. The present paper was to elute immunogenic peptides ( CD8 T cell epitopes) from class I complexes at the cell surface of viable FBL-3 cells by acid treatment. The acid treated cells remained viable but lost sensitivity to be lysed by FBL-3 specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs). The sensitivity of the acid-treated cell was restored to the FBL-3 specific CTLs by supplement of the acid-eluted cell-free supematants. Paptides were subsequently fractionated by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) . The fractionated peptides in HPLC fractions 5~6 and 23 ~ 60 (tubes) showed the capacity to sensitize RAM-S cells, which could be lysised by FBL-3 specific CTLs. The experiment indicates that this method may be useful in the definition of petide epitopes relevant to tumor cells.
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